Mason L. Wong 王樂知

The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

amichai.

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

If you're going to get obsessed with a Chinese Warlord-era Kuomintang figure it should obviously be Zhang Xueliang.

"always the golfer, never the wildfire victim."

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

Wikipedia article of a Chinese pirate lady named Zheng Yi Sao

“You are allowed to keep fourteen hundred pirates and two dozen pirate ships” has to be the sweetest plea deal in the history of plea deals.

Scaly pangolin amongst leaves

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

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NYC is gonna have collective mental breakdown if this actually happens

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

« Happy New Year. Moomin’s year of the horse. » Illustration of Moomin on a horse.

Happy lunar new year! 🧧🏮🌕

even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward

The state of U.S.-Canada relations aside (clearly the driving factor here), it is pretty abhorrent to see an otherwise liberal democratic leader flirting this hard with China, especially just days after they threw Jimmy Lai in prison. Quote Mark Carney

A throughline for so much of the American political commentariat, from left to right, is the utter and total incomprehension that American actions have consequences.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

“They are the vanguard — the miners, and sappers — of returning despotism. We must repulse them, or they will subjugate us.”

That it took so long for so many to publicly acknowledge Karp and Thiel's descent into madness is telling in itself

There are fundamentally two Americas: the Union and the Confederacy. Our current struggle is about which we choose to be.

The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.

Yiyun Li | To Remember in America When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

To Remember in America www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Columbia | Los Angeles Review of Books Chris Horton’s ‘Ghost Nation’ and Ching Kwan Lee’s ‘Forever Hong Kong’ follow protesters and revolutionaries who, successfully or otherwise, challenged the power of the state.

"The distance between here and Hong Kong feels less like a chasm than a gap." Paul Kreitman on "Ghost Nation" and "Forever Hong Kong": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ghost-nation-taiwan-forever-hong-kong-china-resistance/

Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...

yep. even after Trump kicks it the global authoritarian movement will be there and strong talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...

the real world projects its shadows into our phenomenal consciousness, and then we make shadow-puppets of the things we see and project it down into Claude's.

It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.

so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon

once again, the ancient and quirky institution of the grand jury stands up for liberty when all kinds of modern institutions have failed.

really hard to overstate how much AIPAC fucked up here - not only did they push out the more pro-Israel candidate for not toeing their exact line, they started a blood feud with him and are clearly in the process of making themselves completely unwelcome in Dem politics

Congressman Tom Malinowski Congratulates Analilia Mejia, Warns of Dark Money's Impact on NJ-11 Race I congratulate Analilia Mejia on her hard won victory in the NJ-11 special primary. I look forward to supporting her in the April general election. It is essential that we send a Democrat to Washington to fill this seat, not a rubber stamp for Trump. Analilia deserves unequivocal praise and credit for running a positive campaign and for inspiring so many voters on Election Day. But the outcome of this race cannot be understood without also taking into account the massive flood of dark money that AIPAC spent on dishonest ads during the last three weeks. I wish I could say today that this effort, which was meant to intimidate Democrats across the country, failed in NJ-11. But it did not. I met several voters in the final days of the campaign who had seen the ads and asked me, sincerely: "Are you MAGA? Are you for ICE?"

My convictions - including my support for Israel as a democratic and Jewish state - don't change because of who supports or opposes me. But our Democratic Party should have nothing to do with a pro-Trump-billionaire-funded organization that demands absolute fealty to positions that are outside the mainstream of the American pro-Israel community, and then smears those who don't fall into line. If AIPAC backs a candidate - openly or surreptitiously - in the June NJ-11 Congressional primary, I will oppose that candidate and urge my supporters to do so as well. The threat unlimited dark money poses to our democracy is far more significant than the views of a single member of Congress on Middle East policy. I am proud of the joyful and substantive campaign my team and I ran, and am immensely grateful to the volunteers and staff who made it possible. Their mission, and mine, will continue. -Tom Malinowski

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June

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this is so awful and i hate that this is happening to thousands of children

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night